Sunday Mayonaise. – Weird Korea. – Delofi - Leaving. – At night, the sun comes out – New M. Pyres: Mountain Pacific. – Now that’s what I call mixtape – Cosmic Consciousness. – Regional Music. – Animals in the Attic. – Spring Break. – Let It Be Me. – Fill in the Blanks. – We love Proviant Audio – Warning: keep away – Spook Houses. – Japaneseloveshow. – Thelma and Clyde’s upcoming debut – Golden Girl. – Video: Jen Paul / No Lakes - 54 – Paperfangs: new single – Fuck Society – “We sing about ghosts and girls” – Play whatever seems right. We’ll do it from there. – On Hiding. – Sundays = Norwegian music – The Technology of Love. – Spellbinder. – Fall is official now. – To Catch a Thief. – The ambient is growing. – With a fake flower in your hair. – Swanox - Dawnrunner. – I know you well enough by now. – Wolf Pantolones. – Long Walks On The Beach. – Sultan - The Moon. – Seas-Of-Green. – Act So Big Forest: Triton Compilation. – To my city. – Pulsating electronica from Istanbul – Roman Photos. – Seasons In Rust. – Moddi: Rubbles EP – Lovecult. – No Wave. – Westinghousing. – Genre: suge – Bonne anniversaire Beko DSL! – Wish You Were Here. – US English – Video: Autre Ne Veut - Emotional – Summersault. – We Just Had More Fun. – Sweater Days. – Happiness Only Real When Shared. – Sunsoaked. – Stories of spiders and lo-fi – New tape: Vehicle Blues/Jen Paul split. – My favorite color – Video/Stream: Spectrals - Peppermint – Premiere // NFOP Presents: Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk & Katrina Stonehart – Teen Whistle. – Our Star, The Sun. – Nature’s Kid – Norwegian magic – Dream Girl. – Wild Runner. – Pradada x Wonder Wheel. – Good Morning June – Tales of the Dusk Warrior. – No Fear Of Pop

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Roman Photos.

11 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

David from the Atlanta, Georgia dance/synth laden electro outfit Roman Photos just sent over the title track from their upcoming Ribcage 7 inch which is about to be put out by Army Of Bad Luck very soon. The vinyl includes Ribcage and Closer on the backside, and comes with a CDr of remixes of both tracks. You can stream everything already on their bandcamp. The tune is a pretty awesome dancefloor filler, with a heavy bassline and a reduced rhythm section quite reminiscent of the DFA squad, and that has never been a bad thing basically.

Along with that, I felt like posting my absolute favorite from their last EP Into the Night, released in August and available for free download via their bandcamp. The cool and smooth late night comedown score Resident has been on heavy rotation on my desktop since then but I somehow totally missed to also share it with you sometime. Odd thing, that me.

Roman Photos - Ribcage

Roman Photos - Resident

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David from the Atlanta, Georgia dance/synth laden electro outfit Roman Photos just sent over the title track from their upcoming Ribcage 7 inch which is about to be put out by Army Of Bad Luck very soon. The vinyl includes Ribcage and Closer on the backside, and comes with a CDr of remixes of both tracks. You can stream everything already on their bandcamp. The tune is a pretty awesome dancefloor filler, with a heavy bassline and a reduced rhythm section quite reminiscent of the DFA squad, and that has never been a bad thing basically.

Along with that, I felt like posting my absolute favorite from their last EP Into the Night, released in August and available for free download via their bandcamp. The cool and smooth late night comedown score Resident has been on heavy rotation on my desktop since then but I somehow totally missed to also share it with you sometime. Odd thing, that me.

Roman Photos - Ribcage

Roman Photos - Resident

Seasons In Rust.

11 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

This thing has been out there for a few months already, but I thought it might not hurt at all to call attention to Drew Hill's simply amazing tape Seasons In Rust, still available via the mighty Bathetic Records. Show Me A Grave starts rude but quickly unravels, leaving the space for a short peace of floating ambience, a real sonic landscape enriched with quiet vocal samples in the background, dark and dreamy all along.

Drew Hill - Show Me A Grave

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This thing has been out there for a few months already, but I thought it might not hurt at all to call attention to Drew Hill's simply amazing tape Seasons In Rust, still available via the mighty Bathetic Records. Show Me A Grave starts rude but quickly unravels, leaving the space for a short peace of floating ambience, a real sonic landscape enriched with quiet vocal samples in the background, dark and dreamy all along.

Drew Hill - Show Me A Grave

Moddi: Rubbles EP

11 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

On October 15th, my favorite Norwegian singer-songwriter Moddi will drop his very first international release in UK and Germany via Impeller Records, and only a couple of days ago the EP was also put out for free download over at his bandcamp. The EP features the lovely track Rubbles taken off his debut album Floriography back in February (in my opinion, one of the best records of 2010) along with two exclusive tracks, one that was previously only available on the vinyl. With beautiful, Björk-like vocals and melancholic tunes that belongs to the ocean and mountains of northern Norway, Moddi makes me forget about time itself. And that, my friends, is the reason why he's among my top 5 favorite musicians.

Also, make sure to check out Moddi's recent mixtape entitled Moddimiks, featuring both Einar Stray and Therese Aune whom we recently also covered on our own mixtape, in addition to Moddi himself.

Moddi - Moonchild

Moddi - Floriography

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRBm7YkIRzk?fs=1]

Music video by Jørgen Nordby.

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On October 15th, my favorite Norwegian singer-songwriter Moddi will drop his very first international release in UK and Germany via Impeller Records, and only a couple of days ago the EP was also put out for free download over at his bandcamp. The EP features the lovely track Rubbles taken off his debut album Floriography back in February (in my opinion, one of the best records of 2010) along with two exclusive tracks, one that was previously only available on the vinyl. With beautiful, Björk-like vocals and melancholic tunes that belongs to the ocean and mountains of northern Norway, Moddi makes me forget about time itself. And that, my friends, is the reason why he's among my top 5 favorite musicians.

Also, make sure to check out Moddi's recent mixtape entitled Moddimiks, featuring both Einar Stray and Therese Aune whom we recently also covered on our own mixtape, in addition to Moddi himself.

Moddi - Moonchild

Moddi - Floriography

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRBm7YkIRzk?fs=1]

Music video by Jørgen Nordby.

Lovecult.

10 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

Bringing you some more hot music from the Norwegian music scene, Bergen-based Lovecult mixes new genres with old: shoegaze and post-punk plus psychedelic and krautrock from the 70-s. All though they've been around for two years, the six-piece hasn't released any new material since their EP Liebling back in '08. However, a debut album is in the making (according to the band itself), hopefully to be released sometime next year. For now, the four-track EP is available for free download over at their Urørt site.

Lovecult - One In Five

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Bringing you some more hot music from the Norwegian music scene, Bergen-based Lovecult mixes new genres with old: shoegaze and post-punk plus psychedelic and krautrock from the 70-s. All though they've been around for two years, the six-piece hasn't released any new material since their EP Liebling back in '08. However, a debut album is in the making (according to the band itself), hopefully to be released sometime next year. For now, the four-track EP is available for free download over at their Urørt site.

Lovecult - One In Five

No Wave.

09 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Without much ado, a nice and easy electro synth and sample heavy stomper to get your Saturday night started. No Wave is the work of Pensacola, Florida resident Jonathan Gehrdes. The aptly titled Night Owl leans towards some of this year's rather psychedelia-infused dance music. There's more stuff available for free on his bandcamp. An album named 1991 is scheduled for later this month.

No Wave - Night Owl

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Without much ado, a nice and easy electro synth and sample heavy stomper to get your Saturday night started. No Wave is the work of Pensacola, Florida resident Jonathan Gehrdes. The aptly titled Night Owl leans towards some of this year's rather psychedelia-infused dance music. There's more stuff available for free on his bandcamp. An album named 1991 is scheduled for later this month.

No Wave - Night Owl

Westinghousing.

09 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Albuquerque, New Mexico dude Ryan Gabel's one man lo-fi psych pop project Arc Light had been on my radar since my pals over at Ashtapes had introduced his music in late August, but he only very recently regained my full awareness when the impeccable Rose Quartz folks told us about Arc Light's new album Westinghousing which was put up to his bandcamp roughly two weeks ago. Moreover, it turns out that Gabel has relocated to Brooklyn since the first time I've encountered him, and on the western shores of Long Island he has written and produced most of the songs for his sophomore output. Needless to say, those new tunes absolutely live up to the promises Gabel made with his self-titled debut effort. Arc Light might be bedroom music in the true sense of the term, considered that every single sound was recorded by Gabel himself via Garageband, but this doesn't prevent the tunes to be very well crafted and a highly enjoyable listen. Soon, we're gonna hear even more new stuff by Gabel in the shape of his other project Rage City, which is him doing the vocals over Tony Bonanza's instrumentation, another splendid lo-fi dude who we had on these pages back at a time when everybody was still talking about the World Cup.

Enough said, listen to two of Westinghousing's tracks below, and make sure you download the whole album over at bandcamp for a very reasonable amount of money. Also, don't miss Arc Light's first ever video, made for the song Flashes Of Hell (7 Suns) from his debut album.

Arc Light - My Installation

Arc Light - Mark Fails At Life

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Albuquerque, New Mexico dude Ryan Gabel's one man lo-fi psych pop project Arc Light had been on my radar since my pals over at Ashtapes had introduced his music in late August, but he only very recently regained my full awareness when the impeccable Rose Quartz folks told us about Arc Light's new album Westinghousing which was put up to his bandcamp roughly two weeks ago. Moreover, it turns out that Gabel has relocated to Brooklyn since the first time I've encountered him, and on the western shores of Long Island he has written and produced most of the songs for his sophomore output. Needless to say, those new tunes absolutely live up to the promises Gabel made with his self-titled debut effort. Arc Light might be bedroom music in the true sense of the term, considered that every single sound was recorded by Gabel himself via Garageband, but this doesn't prevent the tunes to be very well crafted and a highly enjoyable listen. Soon, we're gonna hear even more new stuff by Gabel in the shape of his other project Rage City, which is him doing the vocals over Tony Bonanza's instrumentation, another splendid lo-fi dude who we had on these pages back at a time when everybody was still talking about the World Cup.

Enough said, listen to two of Westinghousing's tracks below, and make sure you download the whole album over at bandcamp for a very reasonable amount of money. Also, don't miss Arc Light's first ever video, made for the song Flashes Of Hell (7 Suns) from his debut album.

Arc Light - My Installation

Arc Light - Mark Fails At Life

Genre: suge

09 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

Yesterday we were finally blessed with the brand new EP by the collaborations project Seeing Suge, a project put together with some of our favorite people around; California-based Mikey from Blackbird Blackbird, Star Slinger aka Darren from Manchester and the 19 year old rapper Emay from Canada.

Even though the big distance, this still hasn't stopped them from making the beautiful track Breaking together, featuring the very best gems of their own music blended together into one, sparkly track. In addition to the single, they've also put out some of their own work on the EP — tracks that will be featured on their upcoming albums: Little Respect (Blackbird Blackbird), 1987 (Star Slinger) and Sleep (Emay).

Get suged. Download here.

Seeing Suge - Breaking

Blackbird Blackbird - Little Respect

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Yesterday we were finally blessed with the brand new EP by the collaborations project Seeing Suge, a project put together with some of our favorite people around; California-based Mikey from Blackbird Blackbird, Star Slinger aka Darren from Manchester and the 19 year old rapper Emay from Canada.

Even though the big distance, this still hasn't stopped them from making the beautiful track Breaking together, featuring the very best gems of their own music blended together into one, sparkly track. In addition to the single, they've also put out some of their own work on the EP — tracks that will be featured on their upcoming albums: Little Respect (Blackbird Blackbird), 1987 (Star Slinger) and Sleep (Emay).

Get suged. Download here.

Seeing Suge - Breaking

Blackbird Blackbird - Little Respect

Bonne anniversaire Beko DSL!

09 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Could there be anything worse than forgetting the birthday of a dear and admired friend? Of course not. Things get even more unforgivable if it's your friend's first. So I'm devastated that it took me all week till Friday night to finally notice that our very adorable French Beko Digital Singles Label has rather silently celebrated twelve months, fifty-two weeks or no less than three hundred sixty-five days of existence this very Monday. Congratulations for one year of restlessly rummaging through the endless universe of exciting undiscovered music, thereby maintaining a level of quality we can only dream of.

And the best part of it: Instead just relaxing and waiting to receive bunches of well deserved presents, the folks instead made us a present with Beko's first-ever digital LP, the preposterously yet beautifully titled The Salmon of Doubt by the wonderful Connecticut noise pop duo Procedure Club. One track particularly grabbed my attention, the dreamy collaboration with Massachusetts' Sore Eros, available below. But make sure you download the whole marvelous record over at Beko DSL!

Procedure Club - Snowy (feat. Sore Eros)

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Could there be anything worse than forgetting the birthday of a dear and admired friend? Of course not. Things get even more unforgivable if it's your friend's first. So I'm devastated that it took me all week till Friday night to finally notice that our very adorable French Beko Digital Singles Label has rather silently celebrated twelve months, fifty-two weeks or no less than three hundred sixty-five days of existence this very Monday. Congratulations for one year of restlessly rummaging through the endless universe of exciting undiscovered music, thereby maintaining a level of quality we can only dream of.

And the best part of it: Instead just relaxing and waiting to receive bunches of well deserved presents, the folks instead made us a present with Beko's first-ever digital LP, the preposterously yet beautifully titled The Salmon of Doubt by the wonderful Connecticut noise pop duo Procedure Club. One track particularly grabbed my attention, the dreamy collaboration with Massachusetts' Sore Eros, available below. But make sure you download the whole marvelous record over at Beko DSL!

Procedure Club - Snowy (feat. Sore Eros)

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